Frontier Channel covers the Technological Singularity, cryonics, transhumanism, and other topics some might consider fringe or even pseudoscience. Are they?
[DISCLOSURE: Richard Leis, Jr. is an adviser of a transhumanist club at the University of Arizona and has donated US$150 to the World Transhumanist Association for this fundraising campaign.]
The World Transhumanist Association (WTA) announced yesterday the launch of a fundraising campaign to raise $25,000 by January 31, 2008. All funds donated will be matched dollar-for-dollar [...]
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Calvin Mercer asked “Cryonics and Religion: Friends or Foes?” Cryonics, Mercer believes, will require support from more people than just scientists, including religious people. How should cryogenics supporters present these ideas to religious people?
How the discussion will play out, according to Mercer, will include debates between liberal and conservative viewpoints, anthropocentric versus theocentric beliefs, materialism [...]
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Calvin Mercer asked “Cryonics and Religion: Friends or Foes?” Cryonics, Mercer believes, will require support from more people than just scientists, including religious people. How should cryogenics supporters present these ideas to religious people?
How the discussion will play out, according to Mercer, will include debates between liberal and [...]
The beta of Apple OS-X Leopard provided to developers that attended WWDC has been leaked. Nicholas Deleon of CrunchGear posted about the upcoming operating system appearing on Oink, a private piracy site and, oh boy, are the darknet pirates angry. In their anger, they are throwing out every homophobic rant they can think [...]
Headline on CNN.com: “Girl, 5, stumbles from woods to delight rescuers”
“Little’s husband, Brian, said parishioners have been “praying for his whole family.””Obviously, we’re giving all the glory to God on this one,” Brian Little said.”
Obviously, the glory belongs with the smart little survivor, you awful people! You might as well give the glory [...]
This appears right now (around 11:30 AM PST on Monday, June 18, 2007) on Weather.com:
National Forecast
Prayers answered
2:00 p.m. ET 6/18/2007
Many southern communities have had prayer vigils for rain due to the drought. Their prayers may be answered Tuesday.
Weather is a science. The storm front is not an answer to prayers. It is not [...]
This is a nightmare right out of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.
Bolivian troops seize key smelter
The numbers do not lie, and they are surprising:
The majority of households in the United States are now unmarried.
In the United States, death rates are collapsing even faster than birth rates – once every 13 seconds versus once every 7 seconds, respectively.
Poverty rates around the world are also falling rapidly, as a percentage of the [...]
Derby winner Barbaro fighting for life – Yahoo! NewsGrowing up, one of my favorite things to do around my birthday wasto watch the Kentucky Derby. I continued that tradition through collegeand adulthood.
Barbaro won the race this year, but it wasthe first I did not watch. Although I love watching the horses race,lately I have felt [...]